Some people believe that everyone will go to heaven at some point in time. They base their thinking on the fact that since God is love, how can He permit anything else?

Think about this: He is God, and He is pure and holy; therefore sin is a corruption, a defilement of God”™s love and goodness.[Romans 3:23 tells us thatall people sin and fall short of God”™s glory, His holiness.]

Sin has to be judged and dealt with by this holy God.And He has done just that by allowing the judgment to fall on His Son, for all people.God”™s love is exhibited through His Son”™s sacrificial death and resurrection.(However, each person is responsible to choose this great gift for themselves.)

The Lord Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one goes to the Father except through belief in Christ as Savior and Lord. (SeeJohn 14:6)

For this reason, belief in Christ Jesus as Savior is a personal choice and our choices will be judged by Christ.The only way for anyone to go to heaven is through Christ alone.

(NASB) John 15:6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.”

From where are we warned about judgment: where all people will be acquitted or condemned? It is from Christ Himself.

(NASB) Matthew 25:31-34, 41 “But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.

32 “˜All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

33 and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.

34 “˜Then the King will say to those on His right, “˜Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

41 “˜Then He will also say to those on His left, “˜Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels”¦”

The judgment of Christ will be on my personal choices.

I will go into the eternal kingdom of God

OR

I will go into the eternal fire.

Where have you chosen to spend your eternity?

[In John 3:16-21 Extra reading: notice the “˜whoever”™ throughout this passage: we must make a personal choice!]